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PALEONTOLOGY. 



been found, which Professor Wagner* regards as transitional 

 between Hylobates and Semnopithecus : the third lobe of the 

 last molar is, however, as well developed as in the latter genus. 



Genus Semnopithecus. — To this genus belong the petrified 

 jaws, teeth, and astragalus, from the older pliocene or miocene 

 rocks in the sub-Himalayan hills, near Sutlej, India, dis- 

 covered in 1836 by Durand and Baker. 



In the pliocene deposits of Montpellier remains of a 

 monkey occur, referred by Christol to a Cercopithecus ; and in 



Fig. 138. 

 Skull of Dhiotherium giganteum (Miocene, Epplesheirn) 



pliocene brick-earth in Essex the writer has determined part 

 of the fossil jaw and teeth of a Macacus. 



Genus Dinotherium, Cuv. and Kp. — This name was given 

 by Kaup, after the discovery of the singular shape and arma- 



* Abhanglungen der k. bayer Akademie, bd. ii , 1854, Munchen. 



